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Friday, August 30, 2013

GSAT-7,Indian Military Communications Satellite Launched Friday Aug 30,2013



GSAT-7, the country's first advanced and full-fledged Military Communications Satellite, was launched in the early hours of Friday Aug 30,2013 from the Kourou space port of French Guiana space in South America. The multi-band spacecraft, to be used exclusively by Indian Navy, was put in orbit on a European Ariane 5 rocket at 2 a.m., Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said


GSAT-7/ INSAT-4F is expected to significantly improve the country’s maritime security and intelligence gathering in a wide swathe on either coasts of the Indian Ocean region

GSAT-7  is exclusively meant for the armed forces, primarily Indian Navy

About 34 minutes after take-off, Ariane-5 placed the spacecraft precisely in the intended temporary oval or geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) in space

Arianespace, the launch service company, said GSAT-7 was the 17th ISRO satellite to be lifted to space on its Ariane vehicle. Its vehicle for Friday, VA215, released the national satellite minutes after a 6-tonne Qatar satellite called EUTELSAT 25B/Es’hail 1. ISRO first used an Ariane launcher for its 1981 experimental satellite named APPLE. 

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